My concern about Flynn's resignation

Flynn's resignation, or what some are calling a political assassination, is concerning because our government recorded a citizen's phone calls and used those calls to essentially get him fired. There is more to this than hearsay about Flynn possibly talking to Russia about US sanctions. The method used is what concerns me most of all, though the whole thing concerns me.

The intelligence community should not leak sensitive information to the press and they should not tap phone lines for no good reason. The press is not responsible for prosecuting someone, that's not patriotism in any sense of the word. 

The reason I brought up patriotism is because I was watching MSNBC to see what they were saying, it's good to see what the slant is sometimes. The show that was on was MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle and Carl Higbie  was being firmly interviewed (that's the nice way to put it) by Ruhle; she asked him in the context of the White House press leaks, "You are a Navy SEAL yourself. Could you see that maybe there are some people in there who are patriots who are saying, ‘I’ve got to figure a way to get the truth out.'"

Let's talk about that question. First of all, are the majority of SEAL's unpatriotic? That seems to be what Ruhle is questioning. I could be putting too much into her question, so let's discount that one. The main problem I see with her question is that she says that it's patriotic to leak information to the press illegally. Edward Snowden may think that is patriotic, but I don't consider that to be patriotic. 

Patriotism, according to Merriam-Webster, is defined as "love for or devotion to one's country." I can't reconcile how devotion to my country fits with breaking my country's law to leak information to the press.

Before I digress too much, I do believe this was a political assassination. The intelligence community wanted Flynn out by almost any means necessary. 

This quote from an article on The Week is a good summary: 

Unelected intelligence analysts work for the president, not the other way around. Far too many Trump critics appear not to care that these intelligence agents leaked highly sensitive information to the press — mostly because Trump critics are pleased with the result. "Finally," they say, "someone took a stand to expose collusion between the Russians and a senior aide to the president!"

I don't agree with everything said in that article, but that quote I do agree with. The intelligence community, or the FBI, does not need to be engaged in undermining our own president and his administration. They didn't do this to Obama.

Why would Flynn be the victim of a political assassination? 

Here's a reason: there was "a secret, months-long campaign by former Obama administration confidantes to handicap President Donald Trump's national security apparatus and preserve the nuclear deal with Iran" by discrediting Flynn. Ben Rhodes, former Obama administration adviser, created this little task force. Obama wants to handicap our own country's national security to politically destroy Trump. I'm not putting the blame fully upon Obama, but he is clearly one of the cogs in this operation.

The only other reason I can figure is the intelligence community's dislike of Trump. It's not my most developed thought, nonetheless it's a thought.

If the intelligence community will take down a president's cabinet member, then who else will they take down? That's my concern. And let's not forget that a man's name was besmirched in all of this.